{"product_id":"the-mudd-club-richard-boch-9781627310512","title":"The Mudd Club","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Oh, The Mudd Club! I may be older and wiser, but how I miss those nights on the dance floor and in the bathrooms. And the music! There was no other place like it on earth.\"\u003c\/b\u003e -- Chris Frantz \/ Talking Heads \u0026amp; Tom Tom Club\u003cbr\u003eThe legendary Mudd Club. You probably couldn't get in.\u003cbr\u003eJean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons partied with David Byrne and Lydia Lunch.\u003cbr\u003eUptown cognoscenti flirted with the children of the outer boroughs as they\u003cbr\u003ebrought the Wild Style to the City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe downtown New York scene was more than punk, it was a mad\u003cbr\u003ebrilliant chaos of cheap rent and experimental art. The Mudd Club was its\u003cbr\u003enexus, the place that birthed the Eighties. Keith Haring claimed membership, while Andy Warhol was only a guest. \u003cbr\u003eDebbie Harry learned to rap from Fab Five Freddy while Klaus Nomi\u003cbr\u003epracticed arias and served home-cooked pastries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe decadence lasted from 1979 to 1983 but artist\u003cbr\u003eRichard Boch was there for every single moment. As the doorman of the legendary\u003cbr\u003eMudd Club he saw everything and remembers it all: \"Standing outside, staring at\u003cbr\u003ethe crowd, it was 'out there' versus 'in here, ' and I was on the inside. The\u003cbr\u003eMudd Club was filled with the famous and soon-to-be famous, along with an\u003cbr\u003eeclectic core of Mudd regulars who gave the place its identity. No Wave and\u003cbr\u003ePost-Punk artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers living in a nighttime\u003cbr\u003eworld on the cusp of two decades. There was nothing else like it? I met\u003cbr\u003eeveryone, and the job quickly defined me. I thought I could handle it, and for\u003cbr\u003ea while, I did. \"  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Boch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1627310517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781627310512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feral House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Richard Boch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047888154879,"sku":"9781627310512","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2309c5e6-b04f-4b2d-8df0-f73fa2d0dbae.jpg?v=1684992725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mudd-club-richard-boch-9781627310512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}